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The Western dialogue over what to do about Burma's repressive military regime is often framed as a single dilemma: whether or not to impose international sanctions. The debate is polarizing. The pro-sanctions crowd claims the moral high ground, deploring the enrichment of a clutch of ethnocentric Burmese generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Poor's Publishing (later Standard & Poor's) started selling its bond ratings to investors in 1916; Fitch followed suit in 1924. In the 1930s, federal regulators began using these private ratings to evaluate the safety of banks' holdings, among other things, but the importance of the agencies waned following World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Ratings Agencies | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Recent events concerning a British prisoner at Guantanamo have exemplified this disappointedly consistent level of secrecy. Binyam Mohamed, a Pakistani-born British citizen, was the first prisoner to be released from Guantanamo after Obama ordered its closure earlier this year. Controversy has since abounded from Mohamed’s court...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Between Our Safety and Our Ideals | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Coke on Sept. 3 announced a deal to buy Beijing-based Huiyuan Juice Group, a privately owned company started by a Chinese entrepreneur 17 years ago. Huiyuan, whose stock is traded on the Hong Kong exchange, is the largest producer of pure orange juice in the country, with over 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Says 'Keep Out' to Coca-Cola | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

Although Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” is certainly a crowd pleaser, it may not capture hip-hop’s original spirit of activism, according to the Harvard’s Hiphop Archive founder and Executive Director, Marcyliena Morgan. “You get...

Author: By Kristen L. Cronon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hip Hop Hooray: The HipHop Archive Gets Talking | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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